2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Finance Major in Minnesota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Finance Major in Minnesota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 54,690 people earned their degree in finance & financial management, making the major the 14th most popular in the United States. In , finance & financial management graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $53,704 and had an average of $24,189 in loans still to pay off.

Across Minnesota, there were 1,147 finance & financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,915 and $24,494 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 finance & financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,378 and $40,982 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Finance Major in Minnesota” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in finance & financial management. That schools that top this list have a program in finance & financial management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Finance Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Finance Major in Minnesota”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in Minnesota

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University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#3 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of St Thomas Minnesota. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Finance Major in Minnesota list. Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 175 diplomas to qualified masters’s finance students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at UST MN

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.